Faces jail for contempt of court after filming defendants in a criminal trial and broadcasting the footage on social media. The two conservative Party Leadership candidates, Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt, go head to head again in hustings in darlington. And coming up peter parker heads to europe in spiderman far from home. See what mark kermode thinks of that in the film review. Good evening, its 5 oclock. Our top story a gang running the biggest modern day Slavery Network ever exposed in the uk has been convicted of offences including trafficking, Money Laundering and using people to perform forced labour. Police believe there were up to 400 victims of the organised crime gang, whose members were all originally from poland. A three year Police Investigation uncovered a well organised system which preyed on polish people who were homeless, former prisoners and alcoholics. The victims were forced to carry out manual labour on farms and in factories in the West Midlands for a pittance, e
Have let families know that in 28 days, or perhaps sooner, they will decide on whether to progress to a retrial to look at some of the cases where the jury were not able to decide upon. I think we will have to wait for that. 0bviously, decide upon. I think we will have to wait for that. Obviously, we have touched upon the fact that there is now a wider review into lucy letby s footprint, during her whole time working at Liverpool Womens and potentially early at the Countess Of Chester, so we are not clear at the moment as to where the next stage of the investigation might lead to. Dan, thank you, dan 0donoghue, who has been following this trial through out. We are bringing you all of the reaction here on bbc news. A statement hasjust been of the reaction here on bbc news. A statement has just been released by the health and social care secretary on the announcement of an inquiry, an independent inquiry that the government has said will take place, focusing on lucy letby s conduct and o
The babies were attacked Betweenjune 2015 and and june 2016. She was charged with 22 counts of attempting babies in her care. Some were injected with air. Others were force fed milk. The Crown Prosecution Service announced on the steps that they weapon eyes to her craft as a nurse. The trial has considered harrowing evidence from. They watched that children die and often harrowing circumstances. The families are very much at the forefront of peoples mines here at court today. Lucy letby was herself in the Court Building was not present in the dock to hear the final verdict delivered. When the first vertex work delivered several days ago, she was present. She sobbed at the dock at one point put her head on the desk and cried. But for the last couple of days, even though she has been here in the Holding Cells at Manchester Crown court, she refused to come and sit in the dock for the conclusion of her trial. She will be sentenced on monday in thejudge her trial. She will be sentenced on m
The tees valley mayoral win for the conservatives appears to buy time for the Prime Minister with his own party. But is he Running Out Of Time with the country . Well have in depth analysis of the votes. Good evening. Two very different moods tonight in the conservative and labour camps after the local and mayoral elections. Rishi sunak says its disappointing to lose good, hardworking councillors, after whats been a painful set of results so far for his party some of the worst tory losses in england for decades. On the other side, labour arejubilant, cock a whoop at their gains across the country, including in the Blackpool South by election, overturning a conservative majority with a colossal 26 swing. Well, this the latest state of play, with the conservatives having lost a36 councillors, and labour gaining 169 so far. Well dig deep into the numbers and look at what the results could mean for the coming General Election. As ever, to guide us through it all, chris mason. Chris, it has
Modern british history was sentenced to a whole life order at Manchester Crown court last month. Well, unions have vowed month. Well, unions have vowed to fight the government tooth and nail after half £1 billion Government Investment in tata steel has put 3000 jobs at risk. The government, though, says it will support more than 12,000 jobs in the sector overall. Tata jobs in the sector overall. Tata has been in talks with the government to switch from coal fired to electric furnaces in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. Labour says only the emissions. Labour says only the tories could spend £500 million of taxpayers money to make thousands of british workers redundant. The man killed in a dog attack in staffordshire yesterday has been named by police as ian price. The 52 year old died in hospital after being seriously injured in stonnall yesterday afternoon near walsall in staffordshire. A man has been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of two dangerous dogs, both believed